Table

Level of education for men and women 16 years and older.¹²
	2013	2019
	Total	Total	Males	Females
¹1 For many immigrants Statistics Norway has no information about their level of education. From 2014, figures include an estimated level of education for missing values for these immigrants. See About the statistics about this and definitions of education levels. Tertiary vocational education was prior to 2016 included in upper secondary education.
²Corrected 12 August 2020.
Level of education, in total	4 117 809	4 371 274	2 193 961	2 177 313
Below upper secondary education	1 103 238	1 100 884	568 264	532 620
Upper secondary education	1 650 483	1 609 559	869 358	740 201
Tertiary vocational education		129 035	82 553	46 482
Higher education, short	887 154	1 057 705	427 611	630 094
Higher education, long	288 512	448 184	234 055	214 129
Of this:
Ph.D.	28 158	45 404	26 106	19 298
Unknown or no completed education	160 264	25 907	12 120	13 787
	Per cent
Below upper secondary education	27.9	25.3	26.0	24.6
Upper secondary education	41.7	37.0	39.8	34.2
Tertiary vocational education		3.0	3.8	2.1
Higher education, short	22.4	24.3	19.6	29.1
Higher education, long	7.3	10.3	10.7	9.9
Of this
Ph.D.	0.7	1.0	1.2	0.9